Series: David Mapstone Mystery
by Author Jon Talton
Dry Heat (2004)
Arizona Dreams: A David Mapstone Mystery (2006)
This one ends on a very bitter note. Surprisingly so. David Mapstone is approached by a former student who discovered a letter written by her father before he died confessing to killing someone in 1966. The letter gives directions on how to find the body but doesn't say who the dead man was. But ...
Cactus Heart (2007)
Concrete Desert (2001)
This is the first in the Phoenix Cold Case series, featuring Professor David Mapstone. Mapstone is an ex-cop, who left the police, and Phoenix, for a new life in California as an academic. Now divorced and refused tenure, he is back in the house he grew up in, wondering how he reached forty with ...
South Phoenix Rules (2010)
This is definitely not a love story for Phoenix. I used to read Jon Talton's columns when he wrote for the AZ republic (and his jabs at it in the book ring true!). This book exposes much of what is wrong with the city and brutally portrays the worst side of us. The sliding of the city parallels ...